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Er - 'now'? This is a recurring whinge from archivists, which I first saw about 15 years ago.

Mind you - they aren't wrong about the problem. It is just that nobody seems to care.

I have a big database of familiy info on a 10 year old machine under a DB that nobody has heard of these days. I've been promising myself to get it shifted to a modern machine for about 5 years now. Somehow I never get the time to do it. :-(

Yeah it always seems to be the way, I must backup these files soon or got to get these old files to work but as you say you never get the time.

But I bet there will be people who have lets say just got married recently and they will have their 'photos of the big day' stored on their new pc, but what happens in 10 years time when MPEG will obviously be outdated and some new fangled image compression software is introduced that does not support it.

I have always thought that there should be more emphasis on new technology wether it be hardware or software having the ability to use old formats and be able to update those old formats wether through patching or some other means to the newer format.

But it always seems to be these days this is the new format for imaging software forget about that old tat you used before.

I mean I am going slightly off topic here but look at DVDs now it Blue Ray and Hi DEF I dont think either will be around long enough till some newer better movie format comes out

but as long as there is a demand to*recover* these items and there are IT techs able to do this, then the general public wont care, its the same thing as VHS > DVD.

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The thing is though anyone with half a brain and a dvd recorder should be able to figure out that if they connect their VHS player to the dvd recorder then they'll be able to transfer the VHS tapes to DVD.

I mean I'm no brain of Britain but it was the first thing I did when I got my DVD recorder.

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